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Dependence Theory (dependence + theory)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting75%

Selected Abstracts

Firm-Specific Human Capital and Governance in IPO Firms: Addressing Agency and Resource Dependence Concerns

ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, Issue 4 2009
Jonathan D. Arthurs
Entrepreneurs with firm-specific human capital represent both a potential source of competitive advantage and a threat to appropriate the rents that are ultimately generated by a new venture. This situation presents interesting agency and resource dependence challenges. While potential investors in these ventures will want assurances that their interests are protected, they will also want to ensure that these key entrepreneurs remain with the organization. Using agency theory and resource dependence theory, we examine the types of governance mechanisms that are implemented in firms going through an initial public offering comparing those ventures which indicate a dependence on these critical entrepreneurs versus those that do not. Our analysis reveals that ventures exhibiting dependence on key entrepreneurs are associated with higher insider and outsider ownership by the board, greater start-up experience by the board, greater use of contingent compensation, and greater use of involuntary departure agreements. [source]

Independent Movement or Government Subcontractor?

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2003
Strategic Responses of Voluntary Organizations to Institutional Processes
The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that can explain differing responses of voluntary organizations to the pressure of homogenization that follows from interaction with public authorities. The paper is theoretically based on institutional organization theory and resource dependence theory, and empirically on research on voluntary organizations in the social sector. It is asserted that the following factors may explain voluntary organizations' ability to maintain autonomous in relation to public organizations: the characteristics of the organizational field, the focal organization's relations to the dominating organization in the field, organization characteristics and intra,organizational processes and strategies. [source]

Environmental Uncertainty and Strategic Supply Management: A Resource Dependence Perspective and Performance Implications

JOURNAL OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2007
Antony Paulraj
SUMMARY Environmental uncertainty plays a crucial role in the implementation of strategic supply management initiatives. The current study adopts the resource dependence theory to explain the direct effect of supply chain uncertainties on strategic supply management, operationalized as a second-order construct comprising strategic purchasing, long-term relationship orientation, interfirm communication, cross-organizational teams and supplier integration. Using structural equation modeling, the 200-firm sample provided evidence that strategic supply management is driven by supply and technology uncertainty. Demand uncertainty, on the other hand, was not found to have a significant impact on strategic supply management. Findings further support the link between strategic supply management and the performance of both buying and supplying firms. [source]

The Left Against Europe?

GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, Issue 2 2006
A Critical Engagement with New Constitutionalism, Structural Dependence Theory
This article offers a critical engagement with two important strands of left theorizations of European Union integration and globalization, namely, ,new constitutionalism' (a sub-form of neo-Gramscian analysis) and ,structural dependence' theory (rooted in a more orthodox Marxist approach). These approaches suffer, respectively, from an uncritical or one-sided approach to constitutionalism and competitiveness; and from a theoretical conflation of national with regional political economy. While new constitutionalism under-theorizes regionalism partly because of its implicit ,methodological nationalism' and attachment to the ethics of national political economy, structural dependence theory neglects regionalism in pursuing a highly pessimistic structuralist approach to globalization. [source]